Plutonium

Hello everyone,

I've been working on a server plugin which tries to fix the servers session issue for T5SP, it should recreate the session on the fly without disconnecting anyone and without stopping the current game. No more manual server restart should be required.

After 3 consecutive session modify fails, it will try to recreate the session then after 3 consecutive session create fails, it will try to re-initiate the connection with Plutonium servers.

Plugin download: https://github.com/Nahelam/t5sp-session-fix/releases/latest

To install it just put it in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plutonium\storage\t5\plugins folder.

Dear T5SP dedicated server owners,

As a big fan of the Black Ops zombie mode, I'm pleased to share with you the fix I made for the voicelines issue!

You can download it here.

Just extract the ZIP archive content to the T5 storage folder of your dedicated server and you should be good to go.

If you want more details about how it works, check out the fix repository.

Let me know if everything works fine on your side, and happy hosting!

This is a mod for Nacht Der Untoten on T5SP I made during the period I was trying to fix voicelines/session errors.

I hosted it a few weeks on some servers named "Nacht Der Untoten | Spawn Room ONLY (mod)" then "Nacht Der Untoten | Spawn Room CHAOS".

Today I decided to clean up the code and make a proper release of it. I don't feel like touching it again for the moment.

Mod description

You are stuck in the spawn room of Nacht Der Untoten, you won't be able to go upstairs or open the door, don't cry and just survive.

• No barriers
• No carpenter
• Instant fast zombies
• Risers (round 7)
• Crawlers coming from the door (round 12)
• Box moved to spawn room, unlocks at round 5
• Weapon cabinet moved to spawn room, the sniper inside it will always one hit kill if headshot
• Radio moved to spawn room
• Mule kick has been replaced with speed cola, unlocks round 10
• Added Pack-A-Punch (with custom fx to make upgrading looks more real), unlocks round 15
• Can buy grenades on the wall (must jump)
• The two wall weapons are randomized every game (except sawed-off)
• Other wall weapons are available in the box
• Included mp40
• Upgrading ballistic knife will give you its bowie variant
• Cool vision
• Alcohol

NOTE: WaW wall weapons cannot be upgraded because the map doesn't have their upgraded variants.

Installation

Download the latest release, extract the ZIP archive content to your T5 storage folder and you're good to go.

Default T5 storage folder on Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Plutonium\storage\t5

Screenshots

Hey,

I've been trying to debug the T5SP dedicated server session issue using a server plugin and I got some information that might help fixing it.

When the EXE_ERROR_MODIFYING_SESSION message is shown on the console on each session modifying attempt, the lobby error code is BD_SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE.

One time I had the connection with styx socket lost error message on the console and then directly after that the session error happened on each session modifying attempt even after the connection with the socket has been reestablished, but I'm not sure that's related because it still happens a lot without the styx message.

Also, sometimes the session creation fails directly when starting the server and the message EXE_ERROR_CREATING_SESSION is shown on the console, then all the next session modifying attempts will throw EXE_ERROR_MODIFYING_SESSION with the lobby error code BD_INVALID_SESSION_ID.

It looks like there are no checks to verify that the session has been created successfully when the server starts, but why does it fails sometimes?

I struggled getting these lobby error codes because the logic of the dwUpdateSessionComplete function is kinda weird, it only prints an error message if the task status is BD_DONE, which isn't the case when the session error happens.

As a first workaround, I found that calling the function DWDisconnectLobby can make the server recreate the session successfully but it completely reinitialize the connection with Plutonium servers, disconnects all clients and rotates to the next map, it can be useful when the server is empty but the session issue can also happen in the middle of a game.

I couldn't find the root cause of this BD_SERVICE_NOT_AVAILABLE error, maybe something goes wrong on the backend side, maybe not, I don't know. For the moment I'm trying to find a way to recreate the session without stopping the current game and disconnecting everyone.

Hope this helps!

Ahrimdon Thank you for the feedback! I'm glad it works without any issue on your side.

I'm also surprised it works on a different version than r3417 because I'm checking a string address to determine if the map_rotate command comes from Plutonium modifications or the game itself, the address seemed fixed when the call came from Plutonium so I decided to rely on it but I thought it would change across versions.

You can verify if it works properly by checking the logs and look at the lines between [SESSION FIX] Attempting to reconnect... and [SESSION FIX] Reconnection successful, if the reconnection is successful the server shouldn't rotate maps (unless it is the end of the game).

If it rotates systematically after a reconnection attempt it means that the condition doesn't work properly and if this happens in the middle of a game it can be really frustrating for the players.

Create a private match, select your map then enter xpartygo in the console, this will allow you to actually start the private match while being alone.

Once the game has started, you should also enter onlinegame 0 in the console, it will enable the solo pause menu, otherwise you will have the online pause menu (game running in the background, no restart, etc.).

By using this method, the Dual Wield CZ75 shouldn't crash the game, however I haven't played very long games thus I can't confirm it is 100% reliable for the moment.

Made some new changes today, should fix an issue when it says that the session has been successfully recreated but in fact it doesn't and the server becomes unjoinable.

If the session recreation really works, you should see the message SESSION CREATE ERROR 0 on the console, the game prints error but actually 0 means that everything is OK because it translates to BD_NO_ERROR (you can check codes here).

Sometimes this message wasn't showing even if the plugin printed [SESSION FIX] Session recreated successfully so I added a check that should detect this behavior.

I will again let the plugin run a couple of hours before creating the release, the build is available in actions if you don't want to wait.

Just updated the plugin on GitHub, had a weird behavior today, it tried to create two sessions in a row without deleting the previous one and the server console got unresponsive, the plugin got stuck somehow so the server was unjoinable until I restarted it.

The changes I made should fix the issue, I added more checks to avoid this kind of behavior, you can already download the build GitHub automatically made at the bottom of the page of the latest action if you want (Release binaries).

On my side I'll let the updated version run a couple of hours before creating the release on GitHub just to make sure it didn't introduced new bugs.

FaN514 I've never experienced this error on the client side, when does it happens? Is it the error you get when you try to join a server which has session issues?

@WeedLikeToSmoke I'm glad it works for you.

Btw I published version 1.3 of the plugin few days ago, you may encounter the map_rotate issue if you're using older versions of the plugin with the latest Plutonium version.